Garment-supporter.



M. M. STURM & J. SIL'VERSTEIN'. GARMENT SUPPORTERQ APPLICATION FILED APR. 25. 1906.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MOSES M. ,STURM AND JOSEPH SILVERSTEIN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

GARMENT-SUPPORTER- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 25, 1906.

Application filed April 25, 1906- Serial Now 313,619.

T on whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, MosEs M. STURM and JOSEPH SILVERSTEIN, subjects of the. Emperor of Austria-Hungary, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garment-Supporters, of which the following is a specification. The present invention pertains to improvements in garment-supporters, and particularly to a clasp or gripping device of the class described and shown in our Patent No.

817,201, of April 10, 1906, and has for its obgripping device.

In the drawings, a is the body portion'of the clasp, which is provided at its rear with a loop I) for its attachment to the elastic of the garment or hose supporter and which at its front end carries a rubber knob c, that may be attached thereto in any suitable manner. At its rear end adjacent to the loop the body ortionis provided with upwardly-proj ecting hearing-earsd (1, each having two eyelets e f.

I i The second member 9 is of resilient material and is provided at its-front end with an opening h, adapted to engage the rubber knob c of the body member, and at its rear with lateral projections or pintles i i for engagement with the eyelets e e of'the ears d. The rear of the second member is reduced in its width and bent downward and forward, so as to extendhold the second member out of engagement with the knob c of the body member. The gripping-lever member is is hinged in the eyelets f of the ears d and is adapted when turned rearward and downward to press with its forwardly-projecting portion Z the second member against the body portion and into engagement with the rubber knob c.

The main feature of the present improvement consists in that the second member 9 is formed integral with the spring whereby a simple, efiective, and durable clasp is obtained.

What we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is'

1. A clasp for hose or garment supporters, comprising a body portion, a second member ofresilient material hinged to said body member, the rear end of the second member being turned downward and forward to eX- tend between the second member and the body member and to form a spring that is adapted normally to keep the second member in open position, and a gripping-lever member also hinged to the base member above the second member to press the latter toward the body member, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

2. A clasp for hose or garment supporters, comprising a body member, u wardly-proj ecting lateral bearing-ears at t e rear of the body member, a second member of resilient material hinged in said ears and having its rear end turned downward and forward to serve as a spring between the body member and itself,'a gri ping-lever also hinged in the ears of the b0 y member above the second member to permit the latter being pressed against the body member, substantlally as and for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

MOSES M. STURM. JOSEPH SILVERSTEIN.

Witnesses:

MAX E- ORDMANN, JOHN T. GARMODY. 

